Fresh clashes broke out around South Sudan’s second-largest city of Malakal on Tuesday, a rebel spokesman and a government official said, the latest turn in the struggle for the capital of the oil-producing Upper Nile region. The United Nations said Malakal, on the banks of the White Nile near the …

Sudan and Egypt agreed on Tuesday not to raise the issue of Halayeb Triangle disputed between the two countries, official Sudan News Agency (SUNA) reported. The agreement came at a meeting between Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on the sidelines of the ongoing African …

The United Nations is strongly condemning an attack along Cameroon’s border with Nigeria that killed a UN independent contractor and four others. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, the UN secretary-general’s special representative for West Africa, said in a statement on Wednesday that the attack took place near Kontcha, Cameroon. The contractor’s nationality …